Most of what is known about Anne Hulton comes from the letters she wrote to her friend Mrs. Adam Lightbody between 1763 and 1776. Of Hulton's published letters the most frequently studied have been those written during 1767-1776, collected in Letters of a Loyalist Lady (1927). Scholars first noticed Hulton through her brother, Henry Hulton, who was a commissioner of customs (a tax officer) in Boston during the nine years preceding the Revolutionary War. Hulton's letters were examined more recently, during the bicentennial and the second wave of the American feminist movement, in studies of women's experiences of the Revolutionary War. The letters offer a firsthand, personal view of political relations in the prewar period as well as Loyalist views of the Revolution. They also chronicle the everyday life of an upper-class eighteenth-century woman in colonial America, and they portray a friendship between two women who worry about one another's health...